Ot - go tribe

[Michchamp]

Yes, they can be an insufferable lot. That said, I'm definitely pulling for the Cubs.

BTW, where does NW go? UPN hugs the shore and MDN goes through my neck of the woods.

Metra-NW actually has quite a few stops in the city, leaves Ogilvie and goes NW along the Kennedy, and keeps going straight NW through Park Ridge, Arlington Heights, Barrington, and out to Woodstock. The last stop is a small town called Harvard, which makes people riding that line sound a lot more intelligent than they are.

I actually rode it many times; it was more convenient than the Blue Line, and had a couple stops in the same places.

 

[TheVictors]

:clap:


I remember going to the National Sports Collectors Convention in the early 90s , seeing an "Old Hoss Radbourn" card and laughing most of the day about it.

Other notable funny baseball names:

Buddy biancalana
Champ Summers
Rusty Kuntz
Urban Shocker
Chief Bender

Rusty Staub pinch hitting for the early-mid-80s Mets always cracked me up. Dude had a straight up belly and used this short little bat and always seemed to make contact.

I played in a pretty competitive softball league about 12yrs ago with a couple former MLB players (pitchers) including Dave Veres. The funniest part was in softball when balls were hit to the right side of the infield, he covered 1st base like no other. Teams bitched he was a ringer, but couldn't hit for squat (I lead the team in HRs that year) but he never messed up covering 1st base and it was huge for us. lol

 

[Spartan23MSU]

Metra-NW actually has quite a few stops in the city, leaves Ogilvie and goes NW along the Kennedy, and keeps going straight NW through Park Ridge, Arlington Heights, Barrington, and out to Woodstock. The last stop is a small town called Harvard, which makes people riding that line sound a lot more intelligent than they are.

I actually rode it many times; it was more convenient than the Blue Line, and had a couple stops in the same places.

You could drink on the Metra back in the Early 2000's, not sure if thats the case today. I cracked a beer on the way home once from Barrington just to say I did. Its much better than the Blue Line.

 

[Spartan23MSU]

Rusty Staub pinch hitting for the early-mid-80s Mets always cracked me up. Dude had a straight up belly and used this short little bat and always seemed to make contact.

I played in a pretty competitive softball league about 12yrs ago with a couple former MLB players (pitchers) including Dave Veres. The funniest part was in softball when balls were hit to the right side of the infield, he covered 1st base like no other. Teams bitched he was a ringer, but couldn't hit for squat (I lead the team in HRs that year) but he never messed up covering 1st base and it was huge for us. lol

I played 12 and 16 in that same time period. Loved my Miken Freak and Miken Velocite bats. Most have been banned for being "too hot" but the velocite was grandfathered in to ASA and still is to this day. Ive still got a few years left in me if I can find the time.

I remember the Staubmeister, the Mets had some great players in the Mid 80s . It was always a treat to see the Cards beat them at Busch.

 

[Michchamp]

You could drink on the Metra back in the Early 2000's, not sure if thats the case today. I cracked a beer on the way home once from Barrington just to say I did. Its much better than the Blue Line.

You still can. or could as of 2015, as long as you didn't cause any problems. the conductors would throw people off the trains who got too rowdy or sloppy. I never saw anyone come close though; usually was a pretty staid crowd (Cubs fans notwithstanding).

The bars at Ogilvie sell beers by the can for the road. they always all tasted super skunky though (no matter what brand I bought, domestic or import). I got the sense whoever owned the bars there was pretty damn politically connected and didnt worry too much about consumer complaints or health inspections.

 

[Michlady]

He talked about the ball collection on the radio show tonight

Look at Twitter for nick baumgardner or mark Snyder

He said 5 were true catches. Many frim his youth when no one caught it and he picked it up

 

[UMRules06]

This is a random thought, but baseball seasons go on for wayyyyy too long. This one won't even end until November 2nd. Baseball is a summer sport. Summer ended literally a month and a half ago.

They need to shave about 15-20 games off the schedule in my opinion and shorten the season by a few weeks. Or start earlier like in Mid March, I dunno which is the better option. I'd rather see them play the cold weather games early in the year rather than when the championship is being decided. None of this will happen, but it would make things better in my opinion.

 

[tinselwolverine]

This is a random thought, but baseball seasons go on for wayyyyy too long. This one won't even end until November 2nd. Baseball is a summer sport. Summer ended literally a month and a half ago.

They need to shave about 15-20 games off the schedule in my opinion and shorten the season by a few weeks. Or start earlier like in Mid March, I dunno which is the better option

Mid March is still winter.

How does starting baseball in the winter make it any more of a summer sport than it already is?

 

[biggunsbob]

This is a random thought, but baseball seasons go on for wayyyyy too long. This one won't even end until November 2nd. Baseball is a summer sport. Summer ended literally a month and a half ago.

They need to shave about 15-20 games off the schedule in my opinion and shorten the season by a few weeks. Or start earlier like in Mid March, I dunno which is the better option. I'd rather see them play the cold weather games early in the year rather than when the championship is being decided. None of this will happen, but it would make things better in my opinion.

I agree drop the seasons to 145-148 games. Add the DH to the national league. Add two more playoff teams for the short series, and the top teams can get a bye. Also make sure home field is for the team who has the most wins and not in some stupid allstar game end the darn thing in warm weather if possible.

 

[UMRules06]

Mid March is still winter.

How does starting baseball in the winter make it any more of a summer sport than it already is?

It might last a week of technically being in winter but that is still better than spending a month and a half in the Fall. Especially because the games aren't as important at the beginning of the year vs. the World Series. I just remember World Series games with the Tigers being played in like 30 degree weather. It doesn't make sense to me how a game that's meant to be played in the warmth of the summer has it's champion determined in the exact opposite kind of weather sometimes.

That's just my opinion.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I agree drop the seasons to 145-148 games. Add the DH to the national league. Add two more playoff teams for the short series, and the top teams can get a bye. Also make sure home field is for the team who has the most wins and not in some stupid allstar game end the darn thing in warm weather if possible.

Well don't start the season two weeks earlier during the winter, whatever ya do.

 

[UMRules06]

The better option is to definitely drop games from the season. We all can agree on that I believe.

 

[thewolverines24]

Shorten spring training. The players hate it. They don't need 25 - 30 games to warm up for the season.

Then drop the season down to 150 games.

 

[byco42]

There used to be 154 games. There can be again. Eliminate interleague play. Lose the extra WC game. Leverage the indoor and warm-weather locations the first week of the season whenever possible for the initial one or two series to minimize postponements.

 

[UMRules06]

There used to be 154 games. There can be again. Eliminate interleague play. Lose the extra WC game. Leverage the indoor and warm-weather locations the first week of the season whenever possible for the initial one or two series to minimize postponements.

Now that there's 15 teams in each league I don't think they can eliminate interleague play. You'll always have one odd team out from each league so they'd have to play each other.

 

[byco42]

Now that there's 15 teams in each league I don't think they can eliminate interleague play. You'll always have one odd team out from each league so they'd have to play each other.

Then eliminate the AL and NL, make it all one league and every team plays the other teams 11 times (154 games). Alternate home and away every other year with a 3-4-3 - game-series arrangement with the 4-game being the home series. Eliminate the ASG, too, but keep the break for the players to recharge. Revert the AL and NLCS to five games. The AL and NLDS to three games. Lose the extra WC game.

All this should mean an end to the season by end of the third week of OCT.

 

[thewolverines24]

Then eliminate the AL and NL, make it all one league and every team plays the other teams 11 times (154 games). Alternate home and away every other year with a 3-4-3 - game-series arrangement with the 4-game being the home series. Eliminate the ASG, too, but keep the break for the players to recharge. Revert the AL and NLCS to five games. The AL and NLDS to three games. Lose the extra WC game.

All this should mean an end to the season by end of the third week of OCT.

Plus shortening spring training. Start earlier. The players don't want or need spring training to be that long.

 

[byco42]

Plus shortening spring training. Start earlier. The players don't want or need spring training to be that long.

I'd start Spring Training later. Starting earlier is already not practicable.

 

[thewolverines24]

I'd start Spring Training later. Starting earlier is already not practicable.

Either way, Spring Training needs to be much shorter as a whole. The players hate it. KC played 35 Spring Training games this year. That's idiotic and completely unnecessary.

No team should play more than 15. Cut it in half.

 

[Michlady]

Well that was ugly last night

Have sinking feeling the tribe will lose after being up 3-1